I brought this burner for my computer last year, i use it regually, so it's lived a long time, usually the lasers go every so often on them. I've use hundreds of different media type and they have all burnt ok on the burner, the burner hasn't made any 'coasters' and i haven't had any problems with it. Burns at a good speed although it's always best to burn at a lower speed to ensure accuracy when burning. It's burnt all types of CD's with no problem, including VCD's, SVCD's, Audio CD, Games, Data CD's and Boot CD's. The stats are: Product Description LG GCE 8520B - disk drive - CD-RW - IDE Device Type Disk drive - CD-RW Dimensions ...  Read the complete review

***MY EXPERIENCE. [5/5]*** I bought this Writer around 6 months ago for £30 through a close friend of mine. Earlier i had a Creative Infra 52X CD ROM ( i can't recall the model ) which was quite comfortable as it had a remote & its reading quality was very good, But it was EXTREMELY sensitive to slightly scratched CD's. I also needed a writer that could read scratched CD's as well & ....TARA RARA.........I came across the LG GCE 8520B CD/RW. Till date i haven't had any problem at all with the job this baby has done for me. ***READ QUALITY & SPEED. [5/5]*** My creative earlier used to take about 12 Mins to read a 700MB CD on ...  Read the complete review